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Low preoperative skeletal muscle index increases the risk of mortality among resectable pancreatic cancer patients: A retrospective study

BACKGROUND: The only potential curative treatment for patients with pancreatic cancer is surgery; however, the prognosis remains poor. Measures of body composition based on computed tomography (CT) have been established as a reliable predictor of the prognosis of cancer patients after surgery. AIM:...

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Autores principales: Cai, Zhi-Wei, Li, Jia-Lin, Liu, Meng, Wang, Hong-Wei, Jiang, Chong-Yi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9827571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36632124
http://dx.doi.org/10.4240/wjgs.v14.i12.1350